Sara AbuGhazal Teta Sabra It was 1992, in a small apartment in west Beirut. I had developed an attachment for men with thick beards surrounded by the yellowiest flowers one’s memory could preserve. Later I learned it was called “marj el zohor.” Much later I realized it was the first understanding of an extended Palestine [...]
Rania Ignatios The day I was born, my feminist future was determined. I was brought up to become a woman, and while everything around me conspired to teach me how to be one, I became a feminist instead. It was not a text that I read, nor a song that I heard, and it certainly [...]
Ghiwa Sayegh Mirage cheek to cheek in the moist cavity of another sacrilege profane twins close when daughterlies glide in the dissonant music of unbounded breaths I smile when they search my grainy body of grinded leaves and hammered peel when I’m only shadow in the light of fluttery receptions when my womb painfully dissected [...]
Ghadeer Malek It had been long since I had connected with where I come from, when I came across a very special feminist encounter… I met Sabreena Da Witch on women’s day 2010, and it all came together very nicely. I had watched her perform the night before at the closing fundraiser for Israeli Apartheid [...]
Jehan Bseiso Brainstorming Nakba At curious four I asked my mother why Superman did not speak the same language I did She told me that Our cartoon hero is a little boy forever ten His hands clasped behind his back, invisible handcuffs She told me I had to learn another alphabet, another geography, In the [...]
At the Palestinian Fairies Project we show the Palestinian Women’s experience for what we believe it to be: a tapestry of thoughts, feelings, memories and day-to-day realities that extend in various directions both in space and time. There are several principles that support our weaving together of the project. The first is our commitment to [...]
Yassmine Saleh In its third successful film-making, after Control Room and Encounter Point, Just Vision won multiple awards for its documentary on Budrus’ non-violent resistance against the construction of the Separation Wall on its land. Just Vision’s director is Julia Bacha, who directed her first award-winning documentary about Al-Jazeera network in Control Room. Just Vision [...]
اليان بدر ثقيلة كخرقة مسحت نهراً من الدموع كوجه أبي الأسمر عندما يغضب كأحمر تكتل فوق الشفاه منذ عصور. متعبة كصمت أثقله الذنب فانهمر كقلب أخي الذي يحتاج إلى رتق كليل لم ينم منذ علاقتين ونيّف. عادية كرجل هدّه الشيب من الانتظار كامرأة أنجبت كومة من الأطفال كجدّة تخطئ في أسماء أحفادها. مريضة كطفولة فقدت [...]
لين هاشم يا عمي! أو بالأحرى ، يا عمتي! ما عم بفهم ليش فيه رجال مفكرين كوكب الأرض ميراث شرعي حلال زلال صافي لالهم من أملاك العائلة منذ تشكل مجرة درب التبانة والمجرات المحيطة بها. يوم بكون ماشية ع الروشة، بلاقي قرطة شباب ماشيين توبليس، يعني بالعربي حشا قيمتكن، عاريي الصدر مع عضلات مفتولة ومبرومة [...]
